{"id":"tokugawa-ieyasu","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ieyasu","language":"en","name":"Tokugawa Ieyasu","name_en":"Tokugawa Ieyasu","name_ne":null,"description":"Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)","headline":"Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three \"Great Unifiers\" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal, and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"31 January 1543","date":"1543-01-31"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Okazaki Castle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1013445"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1 June 1616","date":"1616-06-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Sunpu Castle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1038629"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Japan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17"},{"text":"Tokugawa shogunate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205662"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"samurai","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38142"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Tsukiyama-dono","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4415657"},{"text":"Asahihime","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838180"},{"text":"Shimoyama-dono","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11360827"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Daijō-daijin (21 March 1616 – 17 April 1616)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1157586","start":"1616-03-21","end":"1616-04-17"},{"text":"ōgosho (since 1605)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11435430","start":"1605"},{"text":"Udaijin (24 March 1603 – 18 November 1603)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351174","start":"1603-03-24","end":"1603-11-18"},{"text":"shogun (1603–1605)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131767","start":"1603","end":"1605"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Tokugawa Ieyasu born?","a":"Tokugawa Ieyasu was born on 31 January 1543 in Okazaki Castle."},{"q":"What positions has Tokugawa Ieyasu held?","a":"Positions held by Tokugawa Ieyasu include: Daijō-daijin (1616–1616); ōgosho (since 1605); Udaijin (1603–1603); shogun (1603–1605)."}],"related":[{"name":"Fujiwara no Koretada","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fujiwara-no-koretada"},{"name":"Ashikaga Yoshimitsu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ashikaga-yoshimitsu"},{"name":"Tokugawa Hidetada","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-hidetada"},{"name":"Tokugawa Ienari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ienari"},{"name":"Tokugawa Yoshimune","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-yoshimune"},{"name":"Tokugawa Tsunayoshi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-tsunayoshi"},{"name":"Tokugawa Ieshige","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ieshige"},{"name":"Tokugawa Ietsuna","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ietsuna"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/tokugawa-ieyasu-553f73d964.jpg","width":500,"height":570,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Kanō Tan'yū","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokugawa_Ieyasu2.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Tokugawa Ieyasu","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q171977","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Tokugawa Ieyasu2.JPG by Kanō Tan'yū (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokugawa_Ieyasu2.JPG","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Tokugawa Ieyasu, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Tokugawa Ieyasu2.JPG — Kanō Tan'yū, Public domain.","cite":"\"Tokugawa Ieyasu\". DigiNepal. Last updated 10 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ieyasu. Retrieved 10 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-10T06:52:07Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-10","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ieyasu","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/tokugawa-ieyasu","ne":null}}